Word: sperms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctors have thus far been stalled in undertaking similar research under what amounts to a five-year-old federal moratorium on such experiments with human eggs and sperm. But soon the researchers may be allowed to get back to work. An ethics advisory board appointed by HEW Secretary Joseph Califano has tentatively agreed that the ban should be lifted and proposed guidelines for the work. The board will take a formal vote on its recommendations next month...
...humanly happier, if ethically problematic, event occurred in England. The first baby ever conceived outside the human body was born 8% months after doctors there united sperm and egg in a laboratory petri dish and then implanted the embryo in the mother's womb...
...sperm-killing agent, nonoxynal 9, is not unique to The Encare Oval "but is an active ingredient in several other products (Conceptrol, Delfen, Koromex, Ortho-Creme, etc.)." The FDA thus concludes that The Encare Oval should be considered "no more or less effective than the other vaginal contraceptive drugs available." The actual use/failure rate for these products is 20-30 percent, and according to Our Bodies, Ourselves are, thus, best used in conjunction with a condom...
...surface of the lens. (The lens is especially vulnerable to microwave "cooking" because it has no blood vessels to carry off heat.) In 1968 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said that another organ was vulnerable as well: the testes, because only slight temperature changes can affect the sperm-producing process...
Finally, last Nov. 10, Steptoe extracted an egg from one of Lesley's ovaries, and placed it in a laboratory dish. Edwards then fertilized the egg with John Brown's sperm. Two and a half to three days later, when the egg had undergone three cell divisions, it was placed in Lesley's uterus. Said Edwards about Baby Louise: "The last time I saw her, she was a beautiful eight-celled embryo...